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Nails by Ray Bradbury, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
March 31, 2014
On the Shelf
Photo via Jezebel/Imgur
Discovered in Harvard’s library:
three books bound in human flesh
. (“One book deals with medieval law, another Roman poetry and the other French philosophy.”)
One of the perennial dangers of interviewing writers is that they may
turn the experience into a short story
, with you in it. “Updike had transcribed—verbatim—their exchanges, beginning with the helpful suggestion that the interviewee drive while the interviewer take notes, and extending to trivial back-and-forth unrelated to the matter at hand.”
The estate of Ted Hughes has
ceased to cooperate with his latest biographer
, barring access to Hughes’s archives. “The estate was insistent I should write a ‘literary life,’ not a ‘biography.’”
Writing advice from James Merrill
: “You hardly ever need to
state
your feelings. The point is to feel and keep the eyes open. Then what you feel is expressed, is mimed back at you by the scene. A room, a landscape.”
Go on. Give your fingernails that sexy, on-trend
Fahrenheit 451
look
. You deserve it.
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